Boston Sportswriter Calls Clippers "Bad Boys"

Ben Watanabe of NESN is calling out the Clippers' "antics." He says "the Clippers are not as good a team straight-up as the Thunder." He doesn't even give us credit for being better than the Warriors.
This makes absolutely no sense to me. How? Because the Thunder have an offense that is based solely on isolation? Or because Westbrook is a horrible decision decision maker who focuses more on running into defenders and drawing fouls than running the team's offense? It must be because they have no depth, right? When you watch the Thunder, they don't even resemble an actual team.....

So busy hugging Durant's nuts that he doesn't even see the irony in his statement about the Clippers "manufacturing calls".

Jerediscool

05/06/2014 - 03:42 PM PST

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haha and another writer is calling us Americas team. Seems that no one knows who we are

ohMEohMy!

05/06/2014 - 03:46 PM PST

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Everyone trying to label us. I don't mind. The Bad Boys Pistons played hard and won championships

pageC4

05/06/2014 - 03:51 PM PST

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not even close. the bad boys of this generation should be Memphis

A_DOG_NAMED_BUD

05/06/2014 - 04:02 PM PST

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So can we be the Showtime Clippers then?

Icecoldclipper

05/06/2014 - 04:39 PM PST

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The Breaking Bad Clip Show City?

Jerediscool

05/06/2014 - 04:43 PM PST

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Why can't we just have our own title? why use old teams names?

MrHill

05/06/2014 - 04:44 PM PST

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If we're the Bad Boys...

Chris Paul = Isiah Thomas

J.J. Redick = Joe Dumars

Blake Griffin = Bill Laimbeer?

Jamal Crawford = Vinnie Johnson

Matt Barnes = Rick Mahorn (Matt's the closest thing we have as enforcer)

DeAndre Jordan = John Salley

Danny Granger = Adrian Dantley/Mark Aguirre

It's a question on who plays the "Dennis Rodman" role (and no, not the cross-dressing, different-color version with San Antonio, Chicago, and the Lakers)...the only one I could think of, even he's never been the madman hustle player Rodman was, is Big Baby Davis.

CP3Heliflopter

05/06/2014 - 05:05 PM PST

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Only similarity is that Chris Paul is a rich man's Isiah Thomas.

JQuick32

05/06/2014 - 05:31 PM PST

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This is the same city that thinks the Cheatriots and Bill Belicheat are the epitome of class, so I'll take their opinion with a grain of salt.

A_DOG_NAMED_BUD

05/06/2014 - 05:53 PM PST

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True, but it's also the city in which Doc thrived. Now that I think of it, maybe they're still bitter that Doc chose LA over the Celtics. I still remember how upset Bill Simmons sounded when Doc left Boston. This guy is probably still that heart broken about Doc.

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05/06/2014 - 05:55 PM PST

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I don't know. Probably the same reason why we always have to compare current stars to Jordan, Magic, Bird, or any other all time great. It's just a interesting, but completely hypothetical topic to think about it.

JQuick32

05/06/2014 - 06:14 PM PST

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The more I think about it, the worse the Bad Boys comparison is. I see this team as kind of a mix between the '90s Sonics and late-'90s Blazers in a way.

CP3Best

05/06/2014 - 06:17 PM PST

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Who were the Bad Boys? For the young ones such as myself?

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05/06/2014 - 06:25 PM PST

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Pistons in the mid-80 with Bill Lambeir( 9sp?),dirtiest team in the league. Look at post 10 for the lineup

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05/06/2014 - 06:28 PM PST

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I have always felt that his year we must be the dirtiest team in the league. If we are not, how come we are number 2 in technical and getting the whistle blown on us within a minute of a game starting (being facetious in case you can't tell).

A_DOG_NAMED_BUD

05/06/2014 - 06:37 PM PST

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I don't think the technical fouls have that much to do with being dirty. For the Clippers this season it seems as though most of our technicals were for complaining, not doing anything dirty, like Ibaka when hit Blake below the belt last season. Then again, I could be wrong. It's hard to keep track of all the T's.

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05/06/2014 - 06:39 PM PST

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ESPN recently did a 30 for 30 episode about them just a few weeks ago...it's a great documentary, and it's a must-see for anyone who's a fan of 1980s-era NBA. You have to check your program guide to find out when it comes back on. Pretty much the long and short of it is that kinda goes behind the scenes on how the team was put together--Isiah being drafted in '81, the Cavs trading Laimbeer to the Pistons, Chuck Daly becoming coach, and so on.

A_DOG_NAMED_BUD

05/06/2014 - 06:39 PM PST

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ESPN just made a 30 for 30 film on the Bad Boys. I've been meaning to watch it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.